NCJ Number
90260
Date Published
1982
Length
26 pages
Annotation
Incidents of terrorism remain high because some countries support it and because an international network of terrorism exists. The business community must determine appropriate strategies to counter the terrorist threat to commerce, property, and profit.
Abstract
Collaboration among ideologically linked terrorist groups and even among those without a common philosophy or political interest has increased rapidly and substantially. This terrorist network maintains a service industry in Europe that supplies terrorist needs from clandestine centers in the Middle East. There are seven levels of collaboration among them: financial support, training, supply of combat materials, organizational support, attacks by proxy, coordinated attacks, and joint operations. The article cites incidents of collaboration among terrorist groups worldwide but asserts that many subnational movements do not belong to an international network or take orders from a single centralized body. Each group has different traditions, which prevent a transnational conspiracy from developing. Because of support for terrorism by Communist and Third World countries and the existence of an international terrorist network, the world can anticipate more terrorist incidents (explosions, bombings, assassinations, etc) possibly through the 1990's. A total of 101 reference notes are included.